Radomir Kovshutin

Radomir Kovshutin (18 June 1778-6 October 1850) was a general of the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Radomir Kovshutin was born on 18 June 1778 in Simferopol in Kherson Governorate (present-day Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, Russia) to a wealthy family. He was commissioned as a cornet in an infantry battalion in 1795, and he saw action under General Alexander Suvorov in his campaign against Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy in 1799. At the start of the War of the Third Coalition in 1805, Kovshutin was given command of an army sent to Lithuania to defend the Russian Empire in the case of an invasion by the French Empire. In 1812, he defended Russia against Prussia's invasion at the Battle of Wielbark, and he fought the Prussians and French in the Baltics before the invasion of Russia ended in failure and Prussia and Austria changed allegiance to Russia.

Kovshutin was promoted to full General in 1815 after the end of the wars with France, and he was given command of an army stationed in newly-acquired Congress Poland in what used to be Prussian Poland. Kovshutin held command of the Warsaw Military District, Moscow Military District, and Riga Military District at different times, and he retired from command in 1843. He died seven years later in Moscow.